Topophilia and Escapism: W.H.Auden's Interwar Poetics of Place (1927-1938)

This work focuses on Wystan Hugh Auden's (1907-1973) early poetry (1927-1938) and analyzes its engagement with places, landscapes and local cultures. The scope is limited to the interwar years, when Auden started to write poetry, entered the literary stage and formed his ethical stances, poetic...

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Main Author: Vít, Ladislav
Other Authors: Mánek, Bohuslav
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Published: Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta 2013
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spelling ftunivpraha:oai:https://dspace.cuni.cz:20.500.11956/55180 2024-01-21T10:07:29+01:00 Topophilia and Escapism: W.H.Auden's Interwar Poetics of Place (1927-1938) Topofilie a útěkářství: poetika místa v meziválečném díle (1927-1938) W.H. Audena Vít, Ladislav Mánek, Bohuslav 2013 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/55180 English en_US eng Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/55180 139827 001626490 990016264900106986 rigorózní práce 2013 ftunivpraha https://doi.org/20.500.11956/55180 2023-12-26T00:29:14Z This work focuses on Wystan Hugh Auden's (1907-1973) early poetry (1927-1938) and analyzes its engagement with places, landscapes and local cultures. The scope is limited to the interwar years, when Auden started to write poetry, entered the literary stage and formed his ethical stances, poetics and a personal voice within one of the most socially arduous and aesthetically innovative periods of recent history. This turns his 1920s and 1930s work into a fertile ground for research, which is evidenced by the large body of extant criticism scrutinizing the technical aspects of Auden's interwar poetry as well as its reflection of the poet's affinity with Marxism and the politically conscious intelligentsia of his generation. While sharing the same historical focus, this dissertation diverges from existing scholarship and traces the character of Auden's imaginative dynamic, which renders an inscription of the physical world into art. Auden was highly emotionally and intellectually responsive to particular places, environmental types, human spatial experience and their embedment in arts. This work examines his engagement with Alston Moor in the Northern Pennines, Iceland and England. In his prose, the former two are constructed as sacred places and asylums for his imaginative and physical escapism. The. v českém jazyce Tato disertační práce se zabývá ranou poezií (1927-1938) britského básníka Wystana H. Audena (1907-1973) a zaměřuje se na poetiku místa. Časově se soustředí na první a zároveň nejdynamičtější fázi jeho básnické tvorby. V tomto období Auden započal velmi uvědomělé, disciplinované a už tehdy mimořádně ctižádostivé hledání svého osobitého básnického hlasu. Silný a proměnlivý myšlenkový náboj Audenovy poezie let třicátých nesly oslnivá dikce a vytříbený styl spájející ryze současné prvky s tradičními. Kombinace těchto obsahových a formálních aspektů představovala hybnou sílu, jež začínajícího básníka vynesla do samého středu meziválečné literární scény. Tyto faktory zároveň poutají největší pozornost ... Other/Unknown Material Iceland Charles University CU Digital repository
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description This work focuses on Wystan Hugh Auden's (1907-1973) early poetry (1927-1938) and analyzes its engagement with places, landscapes and local cultures. The scope is limited to the interwar years, when Auden started to write poetry, entered the literary stage and formed his ethical stances, poetics and a personal voice within one of the most socially arduous and aesthetically innovative periods of recent history. This turns his 1920s and 1930s work into a fertile ground for research, which is evidenced by the large body of extant criticism scrutinizing the technical aspects of Auden's interwar poetry as well as its reflection of the poet's affinity with Marxism and the politically conscious intelligentsia of his generation. While sharing the same historical focus, this dissertation diverges from existing scholarship and traces the character of Auden's imaginative dynamic, which renders an inscription of the physical world into art. Auden was highly emotionally and intellectually responsive to particular places, environmental types, human spatial experience and their embedment in arts. This work examines his engagement with Alston Moor in the Northern Pennines, Iceland and England. In his prose, the former two are constructed as sacred places and asylums for his imaginative and physical escapism. The. v českém jazyce Tato disertační práce se zabývá ranou poezií (1927-1938) britského básníka Wystana H. Audena (1907-1973) a zaměřuje se na poetiku místa. Časově se soustředí na první a zároveň nejdynamičtější fázi jeho básnické tvorby. V tomto období Auden započal velmi uvědomělé, disciplinované a už tehdy mimořádně ctižádostivé hledání svého osobitého básnického hlasu. Silný a proměnlivý myšlenkový náboj Audenovy poezie let třicátých nesly oslnivá dikce a vytříbený styl spájející ryze současné prvky s tradičními. Kombinace těchto obsahových a formálních aspektů představovala hybnou sílu, jež začínajícího básníka vynesla do samého středu meziválečné literární scény. Tyto faktory zároveň poutají největší pozornost ...
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